Kristeva Passions of Our Time

1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-0-231-54749-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 100 Seiten

Passions of the Times showcases recent essays of Julia Kristeva’s that demonstrate her capacious intellect, her gifts as a stylist, and the profound contribution of her thought to the challenges of the present. Kristeva considers literature, translation, psychoanalysis, disability, gender, humanism, and universalism, among other topics.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kristeva, Julia

Weitere Mitwirkende

Malovany-Chevallier, Sheila

Borde, Constance

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Sonstige Religionen Sexualität & Gender in den Religionen
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse Psychoanalyse (S. Freud)
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Biographien & Autobiographien: Historisch, Politisch, Militärisch

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents
Foreword
Lawrence D. Kritzman
Acknowledgments

I. Singular Liberties
1. My Alphabet; or, How I Am a Letter
2. Reliance: What Is Loving for a Mother?
3. How to Speak to Literature with Roland Barthes
4. Emile Benveniste, a Linguist Who Neither Says nor Hides, but Signifies

II. Psychoanalysis
5. Freud, the Heart of the Matter
6. The Contemporary Contribution of Psychoanalysis
7. A Father Is Being Beaten to Death
8. Maternal Eroticism
9. Speaking in Psychoanalysis: From Symbols to Flesh and Back Again
10. Affect, That “Intense Depth of Words”
11. The Lacan Event

III. Women
12. Antigone, Limit and Horizon
13. The Passion According to Teresa of Avila
14. Beauvoir Dreams

IV. Humanism
15. A Felicity Named Rousseau
16. Speech, That Experience
17. Disability Revised: The Tragic and Chance
18. From “Critical Modernity” to “Analytical Modernity”
19. In Jerusalem: Monotheisms and Secularization and the Need to Believe
20. Dare Humanism
21. Ten Principles for Twenty-First-Century Humanism
22. On the Sanctity of Human Life

V. France, Europe, China
23. Moses, Freud, and China
24. Diversity Is My Motto
25. The French Cultural Message

VI. Positions
26. The Universal in the Singular
27. Can One Be a Muslim Woman and a Shrink?
28. One Is Born Woman, but I Become One

Notes
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Kristeva Julia:
Julia Kristeva is professor of linguistics at the Université de Paris VII and author of many acclaimed works and novels, including The Severed Head: Capital Visions, This Incredible Need to Believe, Hatred and Forgiveness, and Teresa, My Love: An Imagined Life of the Saint of Avila, all published by Columbia. She is the recipient of the Hannah Arendt Prize for Political Thought and the Holberg International Memorial Prize.Julia Kristeva is professor emerita of linguistics at the Université de Paris VII and author of many acclaimed works. Her Columbia University Press books include Hatred and Forgiveness (2012); The Severed Head: Capital Visions (2014); and, with Philippe Sollers, Marriage as a Fine Art (2016).

Lawrence D. Kritzman is Pat and John Rosenwald Research Professor in the Arts and Sciences and professor of French and comparative literature at Dartmouth College. He is the author of The Fabulous Imagination: On Montaigne’s Essays (2012) and editor of the Columbia History of Twentieth-Century French Thought (2006) and the Columbia University Press series European Perspectives.

Constance Borde and Sheila Malovany-Chevallier live and work in Paris, France. They are the translators of The Second Sex, by Simone de Beauvoir.